Our inability to set up properly for big games

Lancet Fluke said:
Surely grinding out some results and genuinely challenging for the title would look better on his CV than what is happening at the moment?
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You would think so but i just can't see it,if we were to get top 2/3 it'll be players returning from injury that does it and not a change in his rigid plan
 
karen7 said:
Good points and i agree he should do it but he has set himself out to play a certain way and is now in the shop window for his next job where he will be hired for his style of play so he won't change imo
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He's proved he can play bravura football but it is results that keep you in a job. Now is the time to win and style be damned, IMO.
 
I felt like on Saturday the problem was that we didn't treat it like a big game. Leicester just did the same thing they've been doing to everyone all season. It felt like we just disregarded where their strengths lie because we thought we'd beat them anyway. Maybe if we had treated them like a "big" team we'd have identified their threats and not played straight into their hands.
 
karen7 said:
You would think so but i just can't see it,if we were to get top 2/3 it'll be players returning from injury that does it and not a change in his rigid plan
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Oh don't get me wrong, I don't think for one minute that he will change at this point but I don't think it'll be about trying to get another job by showing his style, I just don't think he sees the flaws in his "system".
 
Father Paul said:
Well Dax If you are happy to see humiliation piled upon upon humiliation just go right ahead with your so called facts until he is out the gate. I for one just hope that somehow we can steady the ship and avoid a meltdown. If we continue to play the way we have since Sept we will end up with nothing and out of Europe. There's a fact for you!!!
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No Father Paul, that's an opinion. And not a particularly illuminating one. If we've been poor since Sept as you've supposed. Then BTW Sept and now we've advanced in 3 competitions and regressed in 1. So no. That's not a fact.
 
Pablo1 said:
No, I don't think Kolarov was fit, simple as that. He didn't look it from the warm ups I was watching and the 90 minutes he played didn't change my mind.
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On fitness. I can't argue with you. He looked fine to me. Just couldn't get his offensive game going. I've seen that enough trs over the years here that I'm reluctant to put that down to fitness. And for wy its worth he got in O position often and just made a harsh of his croses or Leicester was well positioned.

Either way, fitness didn't seem the issue. But my point is this, if we are going by why folks wanted Clichy, it would be for his defensive superiority. Since defensive effort, positioning or contribution wasvnot what Kolarov sucked at. The moan seems misplaced in my opinion.
 
Dax777 said:
On fitness. I can't argue with you. He looked fine to me. Just couldn't get his offensive game going. I've seen that enough trs over the years here that I'm reluctant to put that down to fitness. And for wy its worth he got in O position often and just made a harsh of his croses or Leicester was well positioned.

Either way, fitness didn't seem the issue. But my point is this, if we are going by why folks wanted Clichy, it would be for his defensive superiority. Since defensive effort, positioning or contribution wasvnot what Kolarov sucked at. The moan seems misplaced in my opinion.
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He looked sluggish from the start to me. He's hardly the quickest to start off with but when not 100% it's noticeable even more.
Clichy being a better defender would likely have seen us not concede after two minutes, a goal that sucked the life out of us. If Kolarov isn't doing his offensive work then he's not got a great deal left to offer.
 
Dax777 said:
On fitness. I can't argue with you. He looked fine to me. Just couldn't get his offensive game going. I've seen that enough trs over the years here that I'm reluctant to put that down to fitness. And for wy its worth he got in O position often and just made a harsh of his croses or Leicester was well positioned.

Either way, fitness didn't seem the issue. But my point is this, if we are going by why folks wanted Clichy, it would be for his defensive superiority. Since defensive effort, positioning or contribution wasvnot what Kolarov sucked at. The moan seems misplaced in my opinion.
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I would say that Clichy recycles the ball as well as being better defensively, wheras Kolarov boots it in the direction he is facing, as hard as he can. When it works it's great. most of the time he is just depriving a better player of the ball.
 
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